... with the ancient idea that these fossils are thunderstones. The earliest known case of fossil echinoids being ... the last century fossil sea-urchins were called thunderstones throughout Sussex, whereas they are now simply regarded ... As there were still scattered traces of the thunderstone belief in Sussex in 1930, it is probable that more than a century ago the thunderstone aspect was dominant there. This idea survived longer ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
1965 - Cambridge University Press | Antiquity
... with lightning. These stones were called ceraunia, or thunderstones, and it was not until the sixteenth century ... began to suggest that these ceraunia were not thunderstones but ancient human artifacts. I argue that natural ...
Tópico(s): Latin American history and culture
2008 - Brill | Early Science and Medicine
... include BroadVision, Epicentric, iPlanet, Oracle, Plumtree, Tibco, and Thunderstone. Plumtree is the market leader with a 39% ... idea of building their own portals from scratch. Thunderstone is the only vendor that claims a library ( ...
Tópico(s): Web and Library Services
2002 - American Library Association | Library Technology Reports
... such as shepherd's crowns, fairy loaves and thunderstones, provides a further insight into the myths that ...
Tópico(s): Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
2007 - Geological Society of London | Geological Society London Special Publications
... of stone implements, in particular axes (i.e. thunderstones or thunderbolts), elsewhere in the world, especially in ... categories. However, the notion of independent development of thunderstone beliefs does not explain their very widespread distribution. ... for the origin and past history of the thunderstone phenomenon more widely. Moreover, the initial diffusion of ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Australian Archaeology
... in Island Southeast Asia and the origin of thunderstone beliefs, Australian Archaeology 84, no.11 (May 2018): ...
Tópico(s): Building materials and conservation
1901 - University of Chicago Press | The Journal of Geology
... broadsheets issued immediately after the appearance of the “thunderstone,” while Tizio's report demonstrates how such information ...
Tópico(s): Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
1990 - Wiley | Meteoritics
... as natural formations; and also the formation of 'thunderstones' - cylindrical stones on which archaeologists have found traces ...
Tópico(s): Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
2012 - Routledge | Indonesia and the Malay World
La réutilisation des haches néolithiques (également appelées « celts » ou « pierres de foudre ») comme des amulettes à l’époque romaine est aujourd’hui sous-estimée. En conséquence, la date ancienne des deux petits exemples inscrits du British Museum (BM nos 1* et 504) est maintenant remise en doute, en raison d’une évaluation négative qui découle de l’utilisation insuffisante de comparanda. En comparaison avec le corpus croissant de pierres magiques, les médias de ces deux petites haches (jadéite ou serpentine), ...
Tópico(s): Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
2014 - | Kernos
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2021 - Routledge | Folklore
... collected a type of stone called ceraunia, or thunderstones. It was not until the end of the ... evidence to support the idea that so-called thunderstones were in fact archaeological artifacts. They were also ...
Tópico(s): Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
2011 - University of Pennsylvania Press | Journal of the History of Ideas
Tópico(s): Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
1988 - Elsevier BV | Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
... chief. He said that he once had a thunderstone given to him which was so rough that ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
1886 - Nature Portfolio | Nature
R. T. Dodd 1986. Thunderstones and Shooting Stars. The Meaning of Meteorites, xi + 196 pp. Cambridge (Mass.), London: Harvard University Press. Price £21.25, US $ ...
Tópico(s): Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
1987 - Cambridge University Press | Geological Magazine
D. W. C. Sears 1988. Thunderstones. A Study of Meteorites based on Falls and Finds in Arkansas. xii + 98 pp. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. Price £6. ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
1989 - Cambridge University Press | Geological Magazine
D. W. G. Sears Thunderstones : a study of meteorites based on falls and finds in Arkansas. Fayetteville and London (University of Arkansas Press), 1988. xii + ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
1989 - Cambridge University Press | Mineralogical Magazine
1903 - Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland | Man
Tópico(s): Astro and Planetary Science
1987 - Editora da Universidade de São Paulo | Scientia Forestalis
1988 - self-publishing | Observatory
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2002 - IOP Publishing | Metrologia
... for text retrieval tools Kathy Pincus, Kathy Pincus Thunderstone Software Kathy Pincus is the President of Thunderstone Software, a Cleveland, Ohio-based software development firm. ... papers by this author Kathy Pincus, Kathy Pincus Thunderstone Software Kathy Pincus is the President of Thunderstone Software, a Cleveland, Ohio-based software development firm. ...
Tópico(s): Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence
1992 - Wiley | Competitive Intelligence Review
... are compared and their relative efficacy in producing thunderstone is commented upon. Typical synoptic situations of thunderstorm ...
Tópico(s): Science and Climate Studies
1962 - India Meteorological Department | MAUSAM
... under grippings of that blinded force, that of thunderstone, the ash-and-cinder star (p. 78).1 ...
Tópico(s): Medieval European Literature and History
1969 - National Council of Teachers of English | The English Journal
Book Review in this Article: Thunderstones. A Study of Meteorites Based on Falls and Finds in Arkansas by Derek W. G. Sears Brazilian Stone Meteorites by Celso ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
1988 - Wiley | Meteoritics
... of the United States. In her chapter titled, Thunderstones, Prince refers to the fall at Ensisheim in ...
Tópico(s): History of Science and Natural History
2011 - Wiley | Meteoritics and Planetary Science
... of its past role as an amulet, a “thunderstone,” in its Neolithic existence.
2018 - University of Chicago Press | West 86th